Live Nation Entertainment

Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. operates as an entertainment company. The company is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California and currently employs 17,700 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2005-12-14. The firm is a producer of live music concerts. Its segments include Concerts, Ticketing and Sponsorship & Advertising. The Concerts segment principally involves the global promotion of live music events in its owned or operated venues and in rented third-party venues, the operation and management of music venues, the production of music festivals across the world, the creation of associated content and the provision of management and other services to artists. The Ticketing segment is an agency business that sells tickets for events on behalf of its clients. The Sponsorship & Advertising segment employs a sales force that creates and maintains relationships with sponsors through a combination of strategic, international, national, and local opportunities that allow businesses to reach customers through its concert, festival, venue and ticketing assets, including advertising on its Websites.